My condolences. I did C/C++ for a few years and hated every minute of it. I'm convinced that the creators of C were on drugs. Seriously, computers should make things easier, not harder. Pointers to define strings? I shouldn't have to deal with that mess. The language and compiler should take care of those details for me. Different types of strings that aren't compatible? What a pain in the a$$. And don't get me started on pointers to pointers.


>God I love this business. For the first time I am doing what they said you could do in .NET but I've never done or seen done before - two languages in the same solution.
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>And one of them is C++. Really a new experience. I am studying VC++ as fast as I can and trying to catch on to the whole Linking/compiling universe it inhabits and just where everything goes if using the VS2010 IDE (using VS2012 is not an option for this particular project as it just complicates the C++ side)
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>Using Boost 1.54 and a whole lot of other stuff I'd never heard of as of July 4.
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>I am going to be using QuickFAST (an opensource C++ project with a dotnet wrapper that decodes and deserializes feeds from financial markets that use the FAST/FIX protocol) and it isan adventure.
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>Since I'm on the UT a lot I thought I check to see if we had any VC++ gurus in the house and if posting questions here was going to be useful. ( I also hang out on Stackoverflow, of course and QuickFAST has a very nice Google group)
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>Now I think I should see if there is VC++ section of UT that I've just alwasy had turned off...
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>(UPDATE - found the forum but it looks like no one is home)